Spaceteam VR developer Cooperative Innovations last week revealed its latest licensable development tool, VoluMetrics. The simplest way to think of VoluMetrics is a heat mapping tool. The toolkit is able to track where VR and AR headset users are looking in any given experience. It then displays that data to developers. Unlike traditional heat mapping,...
Funomena’s visually arresting VR debut, Luna, is finally making its way to Oculus Quest. The narrative-driven experience was confirmed for launch on the platform at Oculus Connect 6 last week. Though Luna didn’t feature in the new Quest sizzle reel shown on stage, it did show up in the logo thumbnails on stage after. Luna...
If you haven’t bought into Woof & Wood’s The Exorcist: Legion VR series yet, a great chance is coming. Steam just listed The Exorcist: Legion VR Deluxe Edition for release in October. According to the store page, it contains all five episodes of the series for PC VR headsets. Not only that but there are...
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today, we want to know if you think the newly announced Oculus Link feature is going to basically “kill” the Oculus...
The upcoming Hand Tracking feature for Oculus Quest reduces battery life by just 7 minutes, according to Facebook. Hand Tracking was announced during the week at Oculus Connect 6, Facebook’s annual VR/AR conference. Releasing early next year, it will allow users to interact with the Quest menu and supported apps without using the Touch controllers....
Microsoft’s upcoming next generation flight simulator will not support VR at launch, according to a YouTuber who was given hands-on access at a Microsoft hosted event. However, Microsoft did apparently tell the YouTuber, Pete Wright, that it would “maybe” come later on, as “perhaps a longer term goal”. Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced at E3...
Facebook demonstrated an early version of hand and finger tracking on its Oculus Quest VR headset at Oculus Connect 6. The intuitive input method is slated for release as an experimental consumer feature in “early 2020” alongside the release of a hand tracking SDK for developers. We tried an early version of the hand tracking...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) developed a soft flexible “artificial skin” which could deliver high fidelity haptics in VR. Haptic feedback in VR refers to the artificial sensation of actually feeling virtual objects and materials. Imagine one day putting on a VR glove and feeling the smoothness of rubber and the...
While Magic Leap World gets its share of fun apps for playing with Porgs, watching TV, and exploring the ocean’s depths, developers are making a strong business case for the Magic Leap One as well. Cue BadVR, a Los Angeles-based startup that was recently highlighted as one of the NR30 Up & Coming AR Founders...
NBA Digital have announced several ways that NBA fans can view the 2019-20 season in VR, through Oculus Venues and NextVR, marking the second consecutive season of NBA content available in VR. Ahead of the start of the NBA season in late October, NBA Digital and their official live VR partner, NextVR, announced the schedule...
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